On Wed, 4 Jul 2001 at 7:24am, xavier wrote
> Hi, i seem to have a problem here. I did a dump of one of my system on
> the server and, accordingly to the report, the tape was only used at
> 38%, but amanda asks me to put a new tape... I dont't get it, first the
> tape should be the same used, and in second, in worst it should be #2
> and not "new tape".
Amanda uses a new tape every run (or more tha one, depending on what
'runtapes' is). It doesn't matter how full the tape is -- amanda does not
append, and this is a feature, not a bug. Appending is very risky.
It's "new tape" because amanda doesn't know what tape you want to put next
in the sequence.
> I guess this may be because the tape was never used, so i've put a new
> tape that wasnt labeled with amlabel and waited for the day to pass. But
> when i got here this morning, the tape was ejected from the server (and
> so the dump failed). So my question is: Should i have labelled the tape?
> or is it a configuration problem from me?
You *always* have to amlabel your tapes. Amanda will keep asking for "new
tape" until you have amlabelled *and amdumped* to 'tapecycle' tapes.
> and why is amanda asking me for a new tape?
See above.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
